Mysteries
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
The Savant of Chelsea
by Suzanne Jenkins
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
From USA Today Bestselling Author, Suzanne Jenkins!
A Manhattan surgeon travels to New Orleans to face the tragedies and secrets of her youth, leading on a journey to madness. Warning: Contains graphic descriptions of child abuse.
Award winning film-maker and author, Elizabeth Appell says about The Savant of Chelsea, “Disturbing while brilliant. The characters in “The Savant of Chelsea” live and breathe long after the book is over. Jenkins really knows the inside and out of mental illness and doesn’t flinch. Though I kept wanting to turn away I wasn’t able. I couldn’t stop turning the pages.
The Bookwoman’s Last Fling
by John Dunning
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A dead horse trainer draws a book-dealing detective into a deadly plot in this thriller from the New York Times–bestselling author.
Denver bookman Cliff Janeway is in Idaho for work. Wealthy horse trainer H.R. Geiger wants him to assess a collection of rare children’s books, a legacy left behind by Geiger’s long-dead wife, Candice. But the job turns dangerous when Geiger suddenly dies—and Janeway discovers several valuable titles have been replaced with cheap reprints. Now determined to track down the thief, Janeway must delve into Candice and H.R.’s life on the horse racing circuit.
King Solomon’s Carpet
by Ruth Rendell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
From an Edgar Award–winning author: Murder intrudes on a student’s secret history of the London Underground in this “brilliantly unexpected” mystery (The Times, London).
Jarvis Stringer is a young man of many peculiarities, but no obsession has taken hold quite like that of writing the strange and twisting history of the London Underground. To finance his project, he rents out cheap rooms in the long-disused West Hampstead schoolhouse he inherited—a crumbling monument to morbid local lore…
Dreaded Invocations
by Anthony M. Caro
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Dreaded Invocations presents transgressive spins on pulp-style short story horror fiction. Read the garish tales of those too terrified to speak about their dark experiences.
What troubles plague a man who seeks chat app-based therapy from the confines of a secret prison cell? Are those menacing calls to a babysitter really coming from inside the house? Does a vast treasure or mysterious fate await a double-crossing diver inside a sunken ship? Will a steampunk experiment’s artificially constructed man meet a friend or foe inside a mysterious cave? What vengeance does a self-exiled silent movie star have in store for former colleagues against whom he holds a grudge?
Broken Rhodes
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Kinsley Rhodes blows into Harlow, Kansas like a tornado, twisting Sheriff Lincoln James’ life into knots. Her grandfather has been murdered and she wants answers.
As if the town’s first homicide in twenty years wasn’t enough, the beleaguered sheriff now has to deal with Henry Rhodes’ bobcat of a granddaughter, plunging his life deeper into chaos. As a dark storm threatens, long-held secrets are exposed, placing Kinsley directly in harm’s way.
In a race against time, Lincoln’s prime objective is to discover the killer’s identity before Miss Rhodes becomes the next victim…
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Enter the world of Sherlock Holmes for this final collection of short stories showcasing one of English literature’s greatest sleuths as he solves some of his more puzzling cases. From the criminal London underworld to the estates of the most illustrious aristocrats, Holmes engages his trademark deductive reasoning to locate a missing war veteran, recover a stolen gem, track down a Sussex vampire, and even discover why a university professor has begun to creep about like a beast. These are just a few of the mysteries that have come to the attention of Holmes and his loyal companion, Dr. Watson, some of which have baffled even the ranks of Scotland Yard.
The Munich Girl
by Phyllis Edgerly Ring
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun.
Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends.
The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man, Hannes Ritter, whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna’s.
Plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante—and a tyrant’s lover—Anna finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged. With Hannes’s help, she retraces the path of two women who met as teenagers, shared a friendship that spanned the years that Eva Braun was Hitler’s mistress, yet never knew that the men they loved had opposing ambitions.
Bad Liar
by Tami Hoag
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Masterful #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag is back with a riveting, emotionally powerful new thriller!
Small-town labels are hard to shake. Hometown hero. Fallen angel. Can anyone ever escape their past?
A murder victim dumped at the dead end of a lonely country road, face and hands obliterated by a shotgun blast, is not the way sheriff’s detective Nick Fourcade wants to start his week. His only lead takes him to the family of a hometown hero suddenly gone missing. Marc Mercier left his home for a weekend hunting trip and hasn’t been seen since.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Strawberry Shortcake Murder
by Joanne Fluke
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In her debut mystery, Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder, intrepid amateur sleuth and bakery owner Hannah Swensen proved that when it comes to crime, nothing is sweeter than a woman who knows how to really mix it up. Now, the flame-haired, tart-talking (and baking) heroine is back, judging a contest where the competition is really murder.
Strawberry Shortcake Murder
When the president of Hartland Flour chooses cozy Lake Eden, Minnesota, as the spot for their first annual Dessert Bake-Off, Hannah is thrilled to serve as the head judge…
Tender Absolution
by Lisa Jackson
Kindle $1.49 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Rediscover this emotional favorite by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson, previously published as He’s My Soldier Boy
Carlie Surrett has never been able to forget the love of her life, Ben Powell. But after a terrible falling out, Ben leaves to join the army, and leaves Carlie heartbroken.
Now, Ben is back in town, and both he and Carlie are older and wiser. And despite a lifetime of hurt, will an old flame prove to burn just as hot as before?
Cry Uncle
by Judith Arnold
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
After witnessing a professional hit, Seattle architect Pamela Hayes has testified in court against the hit man. Unfortunately, a mistrial is declared and the hit man is released on bail while awaiting a new trial. He intends to silence the sole witness to the murder before that new trial begins. She needs to hide, and she runs as far as she to steamy Key West., Florida.
Jonas Brenner, a Key West bar owner and easy-going slacker, is about to lose custody of his orphaned five-year-old niece unless he can convince the courts that he was a responsible father. What he needs is a prim and proper wife who will create the illusion that Lizard, as his niece likes to be called, is being raised in a stable environment…
The Exceptional Sophia Beaufont Complete Series
by Sarah Noffke, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The first dragon rider in over a hundred years has been born. And it’s a girl.
Never before has a female been chosen to ride a dragon. Join Sophia as she conquers evil, as the dragon riders should have been doing for centuries!
Binge-read the complete best-selling urban fantasy series – all 24 books – with this massive box set containing more than 6,000 action-packed pages!
The Best American Mystery Stories 2015
by James Patterson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
This anthology of 20 short stories features some of today’s best mystery authors—from Lee Child to Jeffrey Deaver and Joyce Carol Oates.
For the 2015 edition of The Best American Mystery Stories, guest editor James Patterson presents twenty tales with all the tension, drama, and visceral emotion of Oscar-worthy cinema. These stories features characters who must make desperate choices: an imaginative bank-robbing couple, a vengeful high school shooter, a lovesick heiress who will do anything for her man, and many others. In one standout entry, Michael Connelly and Dennis Lehane team up to send legendary detective Harry Bosch after a child abductor.
Please Don’t Feed the Vampire!
by R.L. Stine
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
You buy something called “Vampire in a Can.” At first you think it’s just a goofy vampire costume with a cape, plastic fangs, and a tattoo of teeth marks. But then you find a packet in the bottom of the can labeled: DANGER-KEEP AWAY!
If you try to open the packet with your teeth, it rips in your mouth. Uh-oh. Looks like you’ve been transformed into a vampire—and you’re really thirsty. If you decide not to open the packet, your dog sinks his teeth into it. Now your cute little poodle has become a ferocious vampire dog! Can you save your pooch before he bites off more than he can chew? The choice is yours . . .
Blue Moon
by Lee Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
“This is a random universe,” Reacher says. “Once in a blue moon things turn out just right.”
This isn’t one of those times.
Reacher is on a Greyhound bus, minding his own business, with no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. Then he steps off the bus to help an old man who is obviously just a victim waiting to happen. But you know what they say about good deeds. Now Reacher wants to make it right.
Mystery
by Jonathan Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Jonathan Kellerman’s Victims.
The closing of the grand old Fauborg Hotel in Beverly Hills is a sad occasion for longtime patrons Alex Delaware and Robin Castagna, who go there one last time for cocktails. But even more poignant—and curious—is a striking young woman in elegant attire and dark glasses, alone there and waiting in vain. Two days later, police detective Milo Sturgis comes seeking his psychologist comrade’s insights about a grisly homicide…
Legacy of Blood
by Heather Graham
Kindle $7.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
In the streets of Paris, someone wants to paint the town red…
When Special Agent Jeannette LaFarge is called in to investigate a vineyard in the Reims region of France, the last thing she expects to find is multiple bodies with every vein bled dry. It’s yet another case tailor-made for Blackbird. Joining her is recent recruit Detective Daniel Murray, eager to use his newfound abilities to track down whoever is terrorizing Paris and its surrounding areas.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder in Portofino
by T A Williams
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In the gripping Armstrong and Oscar cozy mystery series…It’s murder in paradise!
A much-needed holiday…
Dan Armstrong hasn’t done much retiring since moving to Tuscany, and with his new career as a successful private investigator taking off, it seems murder seems to follow him. He’s hoping a much-needed trip to beautiful Portofino will give him the break he needs and quality time with girlfriend Anna.
A gathering of celebrities…
The Mighty Johns
by David Baldacci
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Forty years ago, Herschel Ruggles, the most legendary player on the Mighty Johns football team at Draven University, disappeared after scoring a record-breaking touchdown.
Instead of tossing the ball to the referee after his near-mythical athletic feat or celebrating with the nearly 25,000 spectators in the stands, Ruggles continued running, ball in hand, into a passageway that led deep underneath the field to the Mighty Johns’ locker room – and was never seen again.
Captive of Fear
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Lindsey Hunter, who experienced incidents of extreme terror during childhood, resolves to no longer be held captive by fear. Yet when she arrives in Scotland with her husband of one week, that resolution seems impossible to attain.
Marc’s house is more of a castle, haunted by memories of his first wife; the family dog is a rambunctious Great Dane that terrifies Lindsey; and the housekeeper is dour and disapproving. Marc’s business partner, Neville, resents her. Marc’s brother, Jules, seems to be a vague man who scrambles to keep up with his wife Casi’s strange flights of fancy. Lindsay’s only friend and ally in this forbidding land is Amy, Casi’s best friend.
The Bounty
by Frank Wheeler
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A classic western novel from Frank Wheeler with non-stop epic adventure and a blend of western romance
Rayne Sutherland never set out to be a father. He was a bounty hunter, not a caretaker. But when he found a scared, orphaned boy hiding in the shadows, he couldn’t just walk away – even if the kid was the son of a notorious killer.
Rayne did his best to raise Jeb right, teaching him to be everything his father wasn’t – sharp, strong, and honorable. But somewhere along the trail, things went wrong. Ginny, the schoolteacher, insists it wasn’t Rayne’s fault, but doubt gnaws at him.
The Family Remains
by Lisa Jewell
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Early one morning on the shore of the Thames, DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene of a gruesome discovery. When Owusu sends the evidence for examination, he learns the bones are connected to a cold case that left three people dead on the kitchen floor in a Chelsea mansion thirty years ago.
Rachel Rimmer has also received a shock—her husband, Michael, has been found dead in the cellar of his house in France. All signs point to an intruder, and the French police need her to come urgently to answer questions about Michael and his past that she very much doesn’t want to answer.
Stalking the Angel
by Robert Crais
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The blonde who walked into Cole’s office was the bestlooking woman he’d seen in weeks. The only thing that kept her from rating a perfect “10” was the briefcase on one arm and the uptight hotel magnate on the other. Bradley Warren had lost something very valuable—something that belonged to someone else: a rare thirteenth-century Japanese manuscript called the Hagakure.
Just about all Cole knew about Japanese culture he’d learned from reading Shogun, but he knew a lot about crooks—and what he didn’t know his sociopathic sidekick, Joe Pike, did…
A Lush and Seething Hell
by John Hornor Jacobs
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Bringing together his acclaimed novella The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky and an all-new short novel My Heart Struck Sorrow, John Hornor Jacobs turns his fertile imagination to the evil that breeds within the human soul.
A brilliant mix of the psychological and supernatural, blending the acute insight of Roberto Bolaño and the eerie imagination of H. P. Lovecraft, The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky examines life in a South American dictatorship. Centered on the journal of a poet-in-exile and his failed attempts at translating a maddening text, it is told by a young woman trying to come to grips with a country that nearly devoured itself.
Malachite
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 3.1 #ad
Meanwhile, Jack Keller, once a respected rancher, descends into the vengeful Black Jack Keller. Fuelled by years of mistreatment by Malachite’s residents, he unleashes havoc upon the town, leaving destruction in his wake. Ashton’s uncle, the only family he has left, becomes another casualty of Keller’s rampage.
Determined to avenge his loved ones, Ashton embarks on a perilous journey to bring Keller to justice. Along the way, he encounters May, a spirited saloon girl whose courage and compassion provide a glimmer of hope in the darkest of times.
Santa’s Secret
by Fern Michaels
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Christmas is filled with beloved and long-kept traditions, but sometimes, there’s nothing better than creating brand-new ones. That’s why Francesca and her high school friends Amy, Rachael, and Nina are traveling to Italy to spend the holidays with Frankie’s boyfriend, Giovanni, and his family.
Giovanni and his brother, Marco, run a small Italian restaurant in Manhattan, where cherished family recipes delight tourists and locals alike. But there’s one recipe that eludes the brothers. Their mama refuses to divulge the special ingredient in her coveted panettone, claiming it is “Santa’s secret.”
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
by Rick Riordan
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Rick Riordan’s newest Percy Jackson adventure is full of hilarious set pieces, a diverse cast of gods and monsters, and many other delightful tricks and treats.
Percy Jackson, now a high school senior, needs three recommendation letters from the Greek gods in order to get into New Rome University. He earned his first one by retrieving Ganymede’s chalice. Now the goddess Hecate has offered Percy another “opportunity”—all he has to do is pet sit her polecat, Gale, and mastiff, Hecuba, over Halloween week while she is away. Piece of cake, right?
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Deception, Denial & Murder
by Christa Nardi
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A fun night out with friends is derailed by the discovery of a body.
A domineering co-worker, a flirtatious neighbor, and a dead body make for many questions and awkward situations. As HR Specialist and trauma counselor, Stacie Maroni is used to dealing with difficult situations. Initially, she’s glad she’s not involved. only then her close friends are cast as potential suspects, At the same time, her boss makes changes in the work place that prove challenging…
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Turbo Twenty-Three
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Larry Virgil skipped out on his latest court date after he was arrested for hijacking an eighteen-wheeler full of premium bourbon. Fortunately for bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, Larry is just stupid enough to attempt almost the exact same crime again. Only this time he flees the scene, leaving behind a freezer truck loaded with Bogart ice cream and a dead body—frozen solid and covered in chocolate and chopped pecans.
As fate would have it, Stephanie’s mentor and occasional employer, Ranger, needs her to go undercover at the Bogart factory to find out who’s putting their employees on ice and sabotaging the business…
O’SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS INC.
by A.G. Russo
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The Homefront, summer 1943, Brooklyn, New York. Smalley Pauley is missing. His brother, gangster Guido Bonasccoro, hires reluctant O’Shaughnessy Detective Agency partners Maeve O’Shaughnessy and Vic Marino to find him.
A year after Vic Marino walked into the O’Shaughnessy detective agency office and told Maeve he was going to help her make a go of an agency on the brink of collapse, they have managed to keep it going thanks to the challenging murder case they solved the previous year. This second year provides newer, darker, more dangerous cases as they find themselves caught in the middle of a gangster turf war and forced to do risky work for G-men.
Mercy
by Michael Palmer, Daniel Palmer
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A doctor uncovers a series of suspicious deaths that may be someone’s twisted idea of mercy in this “superior thriller” from the New York Times–bestselling author’s (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Dr. Julie Devereux is an outspoken advocate for the right to die—until a motorcycle accident leaves her fiancé, Sam, a quadriplegic. Sam begs to end his life, but Julie sees hope in a life together. When he suddenly dies from an unexpected heart attack, an autopsy reveals an unusual heart defect, one only seen in individuals under extreme stress. It appears that Sam was literally scared to death.
Nameless
by Candle Sutton
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Danger swirls in the mists of the Puget Sound. People are disappearing, the most recent being a young child. Nothing links the victims, except the kidnapper. FBI Special Agent Dakarai Lakes suspects the victim count will only increase… unless he and his team can stop the criminal.
His team’s newest agent might be their greatest weapon. Special Agent Kevyn Taylor has a reputation as a mind reader. As a licensed clinical psychologist, she’s spent years honing her skills to read and predict human behavior with a high degree of accuracy. She might be the secret weapon they need to get inside the kidnapper’s head – if her rule-bending, renegade tactics don’t drive Dak crazy first.
Then the first body is found.
Aloha from Hell
by Richard Kadrey
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Supernatural fantasy’s greatest anti-hero goes back to hell! In Aloha from Hell, the ruthless avenger, a.k.a. Stark, finds himself trapped in the middle of a war between Heaven and Hell. Perfect for fans of Jim Butcher, Warren Ellis, Charlaine Harris, Kim Harrison, and Simon R. Green.
Once again all is not right in L.A. Lucifer is back in Heaven, God is on vacation, and an insane killer mounts a war against both Heaven and Hell.
Stark’s got to head back down to his old stomping grounds in Hell to rescue his long lost love, stop an insane serial killer, prevent both Good and Evil from completely destroying each other, and stop the demonic Kissi from ruining the party for everyone.
The Late Show
by Michael Connelly
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Renee Ballard works the midnight shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing few, as each morning she turns everything over to the daytime units. It’s a frustrating job for a once up-and-coming detective, but it’s no accident. She’s been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor.
But one night Ballard catches two assignments she doesn’t want to part with. First, a prostitute is brutally beaten and left for dead in a parking lot. All signs point to a crime of premeditation, not passion, by someone with big evil on his mind. Then she sees a young waitress breathe her last after being caught up in a nightclub shooting.
The Forest of Lost Souls
by Dean Koontz
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A fearless woman, raised in the forest, fights against a group of powerful men in a novel about good versus evil, the enduring nature of myth, and the power of love by #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz.
Raised in the wilderness by her late great-uncle, Vida is a young woman with an almost preternatural affinity for nature, especially for the wolves that also call the forested mountains home. Formed by hard experience, by love and loss, and by the prophecies of a fortune teller, Vida just wants peace. If only nearby Kettleton County didn’t cast such a dark shadow…
When Stars Align
by Dennis Higgins
Kindle $2.25 Rating: 5.0 #ad
One December day in 1986, fifteen-year-old Mark Evans found an old electric Christmas star in a box of ornaments in his Chicago basement. When he plugged it in at Midnight on December 25th, not only did it illuminate the room in faceted color splendor, but he found himself in the same room with a fifteen-year-old girl named, Maggie Townsend whose tree was topped with the same star. However, the year was 1936—exactly fifty years in the past.
Over the years Mark would plug in his star whenever possible and on Christmas at Midnight, his and Maggie’s stars would align to bring him back to her…